Fix for WLW + Blogger error: 400 Bad Request

23Apr08

Several users in the Windows Live Writer forums have reported seeing “Error 400: Bad Request” when publishing to Blogger with images:

This happens when some values are missing from your Windows registry—specifically, the content types of .jpg, .gif, and/or .png extensions. I don’t know exactly how they are getting removed, but it’s almost certainly a buggy uninstaller from some other application.

In any case, you can fix this problem by running this .reg file. No need to reboot or restart Writer.

I am so glad i found this entry!! you are wonderful for posting this and i thank you, it’s been days since i have been able to post pictures, and such a quick simple fix!! thanks again. I am also inseting a link back to your page.

Just wanted to say THANK YOU. This worked for me! All I had to do was:

right click on the “this reg. file” above
click on “save link as”
click “save”
Go to my desktop (or wherever you saved the file) and double click on it
It will ask you if you want to add this file to your registry (or something like that), click yes (or OK).

Go back to Windows Live Writer and try your task again, it should work.

These directions are for dummies like me who couldn’t figure out what to do at first!

Shannon, the other common source of 400 error for Blogger is if you’re trying to add a category/label that has a special character in it, such as ‘&’. If that’s not it, you can send me your log file–Help | About | Show log file–my e-mail address is joe.cheng *AT* microsoft.com. Thanks.

It seems you have been able to help many people, so I have hope! My windows live writer displays a message similar to this one saying File Upload Failed The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden. What does this mean and how can I fix it? Thanks you so much for your help. I want to smash my computer.

Marie, was it previously working fine and then recently started erroring? Or has WLW never been able to upload to Blogger for you? If the former, I think there were some problems on Blogger’s end of things a few days ago, that I would assume are fixed by now.

I posted several posts last year, but haven’t used it in a while. For some reason I can’t get it to work properly now. I’ve tried again several times, but nothing has worked. Any more suggestions for me? Thanks so much for your help.

I think I figured out the problem. I tried to publish pictures directly through blogger and it said I had exceeded the allowable amount of space for pictures on my web album. I guess this means I have to upgrade or start deleting. Thanks again.

Kim: You can log in to Blogger.com and go to the form where you compose a post, there should be a “Word Verification” section that will let you unlock your blog. Once you do that you should be able to post from WLW again.

Thank you so much! I wasn’t able to find the solution to that problem in forums in my country, but thank Google I found yours. I didn’t need the .reg fix, just the Labels stuff worked! I didn’t know about that Blogger rule. Thank you a lot. I faved your blog here.

Wonderful work! That is the kind of information that should be shared across the internet. Disgrace on Google for not positioning this put up higher! Come on over and talk over with my site . Thank you =)

Thank you so much for the help. This has been driving me nuts. I ran the reg file and went back to my blog and tried to post and still recieved the error, then I read more of the posts on your Blog that others tried and as soon as I took out a special character from the category/label out of a listing my blog never recieved the error again.

Answer 19: “Shannon, the other common source of 400 error for Blogger is if you’re trying to add a category/label that has a special character in it, such as ‘&’.”

I had the same error with one of my posts and taking out the ‘&’ symbol corrected it